Third generation container orchestration framework from Google. Many years of experience.
Google is exceptionally good at infrastructure, and can provide a PaaS that's cheaper than others can provide. Hence, when compute becomes undifferentiated, they can win on cost of compute alone.
With federated clusters, it will be possible to distribute work to in-house nodes (TODO)
"no hidden internal APIs" (#)
The resource isolation provided by containers has enabled Google to drive utilization significantly higher than industry norms (#)